Maybe the Iranians want to build nuclear powered naval vessels like the US and Russia have...

Its a mid-range smartphone with some slightly-better-than-usual-for-the-specs audio hardware (but nothing you couldn't find on any number of fairly decent smartphones) and a fancy name attached to it.

Why would any sane admin use RC4 for SSL/TLS instead of using a more secure algorithm like AES?

More than likely they are a vehicle to allow the Chinese government to spend the $23bn without it looking like the Chinese government is the one spending the $23bn.

Thank you to whoever hacked Hacking Team. Because of your work leaking the big data dump, a number of fairly nasty security holes in commonly used computer software such as Flash and Internet Explorer have now been patched by their manufacturers.

Companies (or government agencies) who discover/collect/buy/obtain unpatched vulnerabilities in software and sit on them so they can use them for spying purposes are no better than criminal gangs who discover/collect/buy/obtain unpatched vulnerabilities and sit on them so they can use them for building malware.

IMO There is NEVER a valid reason for ANY entity to hold onto an unpatched vulnerability and exploit it, not even the arguments of "National Security" and "we need this to stop terrorists" that have been used by the NSA and other agencies to justify this practice.

There are several possible outcomes from this deal, none of which is worse than not doing a deal at all.

That said, if Iran is serious in its claim that it doesn't want nuclear weapons and only wants peaceful nuclear technology, it should sign and ratify the various nuclear test ban treaties.

Quite a few of the problems in the middle east today can be traced back to actions taken in the past by western nations.
The Palestinian problem wouldn't even be a problem if Palestine hadn't been taken away from the Palestinians and given to the Jews (first by the British at the end of WW1 when they created "Mandatory Palestine" and allowed the Jews in in big numbers then again at the end of WW2 when the country was split in two, then again when the Jews not only claimed independence for the Jewish part and called it Israel but proceeded to capture the Palestinian part and more land besides)

The current situation in Iran would likely not exist had the US and UK not kicked out Mohammad Mosaddegh in a coup (all because Mohammad Mosaddegh kicked out the British oil company and nationalized the oil industry)

Islamic State wouldn't be such a problem if the US had left things well enough alone in Iraq instead of launching a full-blown invasion just because some circumstantial intelligence suggested Iraq MIGHT have some WMDs somewhere (plus had the US and its allies not go into Iraq they would have been able to focus more on the war in Afghanistan and might not have taken 10 years to take out Osama bin Laden)

Tell that to my Nokia N900 which cant even survive a full day of use (calls, Internet, other stuff) anymore :(

The problem isn't "buses suck", its "buses suck if you live in an area with poor bus service".

If you have little kids and there are no suitable school buses, sure.
But if there are school buses in your area then you dont need to worry about getting your kids to school. Or if your kids are big enough to use regular public transport by themselves, its not a problem either (the age at which its appropriate for kids to use public transport by themselves depends on the kids, the area, the mode of transport etc, in my case I used to use public transport to get to and from high school by my self all the time)

At the very most he should be charged with trespassing (for being somewhere he wasn't allowed to be) and theft (for stealing the mercury switches) and given a minimal punishment along with clear instructions not to go places he isn't allowed to go or take things that don't belong to him.

Or if you are in a situation where doing so is possible you buy/travel with a starter pistol or something else legally classified as a "firearm" by the TSA and can then legally lock your case with a big fat non-TSA lock.

Plenty of people who aren't gun people who use this "trick" to protect expensive camera gear, tech or whatever else.

Windows RT and Windows Phone both have walled gardens and only let you install from the Microsoft store.

Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.

Only problem is that the same oligarchs, rich people, big companies etc that are not paying their taxes in Greece are also lobbying the EU under the table asking the EU to reject any Greek bailout plans that involve collecting these taxes.

Ok so the EU says to Greece that it has to do certain things (raise VAT, cut pensions, some other stuff) which will swing the Greek budget back towards surplus by x amount of Euros. Greece has then countered by saying that they can get the same x amount of Euros by increasing taxes on big companies and doing a few other things instead of doing the things the EU wants.

If Greece can get the money the EU says it needs to get in a way that provides less hurt to the Greek economy and to those worst off in Green society, why wont the EU let them do it instead of insisting on the economically destroying austerity?